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Reference number

SM Adam volume 37/15

Purpose

[3] Design showing a plan of the second storey, 1772, unexecuted

Aspect

Plan of the second storey of the central block as Adam volumes 37/13-14, but with no entrances, and a central tetrastyle portico across the garden front, and containing bedrooms and dressing rooms

Scale

bar scale of 4/5 inch to 10 feet

Inscribed

Plan of the second Story of Floors Castle. / for his Grace the Duke of Roxburgh (in the hand of William Adam) / Dressing Room / Bed Chambr (underwritten on pencil) / Bed Chamber (underwritten on pencil) / Bed Chamber / Closet / Closet / Bed Chamber / Gentlemens Dressg room (underwritten on pencil) / Bed Chamber (underwritten on pencil) / Dressg room (underwritten on pencil) / Dressing room (underwritten on pencil) / Bed Chamber (underwritten on pencil) / Great Stars / Anti room / Passage / Bed Chamber (underwritten on pencil) / Gentlemens Dressing Room (underwritten on pencil) / Ladys Dressing room (underwritten on pencil) and some measurements given (verso) 4 / 4

Signed and dated

  • 1772
    datable to 1772

Medium and dimensions

Pen, pencil and wash within a single ruled border on laid paper (435 x 316)

Hand

Adam office hand, possibly William Hamilton or Joseph Bonom, with addition to title inscription in the hand of William Adam

Watermark

IV surmounted by fleur de lis within crowned cartouche

Literature

Bolton, 1922, Volume II, Index p. 13
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.

Level

Drawing

Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation

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